“Nuclear energy is an option” IPCC chair man
16/12/2009
Wednesday the young delegates of the Bella Center were invited to a meeting with Dr Rajendra K Pachauri the head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
He began saying that it was a source of great joy to be with young people and summed up the key finding of the present climate science: there is evidence of a warming up of the system which is most likely to be related to human action. He highlighted the danger that would face the world with a severe climate change and linked it as a threat to peace. He asked us to use the media effectively, to spread our message out of the Bella Center during COP15, and after: “When you go back, make sure that you don’t rest.”
At the end of the meeting, a young activist asked a question on nuclear energy. Apparently for Dr Pachauri, nuclear wastes, nuclear accidents, threats that large area could be contaminated for ages do not represent such an issue. “Nuclear energy is a serious option” he said adding, that it should be carefully assessed, and that not all every countries should use it… Pathetic… Hearing this I was thinking: oh yeah let’s swap a threat for another, forget about the climate change threat, que viva el nuclear threat!
Benoît
Wednesday the young delegates of the Bella Center were invited to a meeting with Dr Rajendra K Pachauri the head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
He began saying that it was a source of great joy to be with young people and summed up the key finding of the present climate science: there is evidence of a warming up of the system which is most likely to be related to human action. He highlighted the danger that would face the world with a severe climate change and linked it as a threat to peace. He asked us to use the media effectively, to spread our message out of the Bella Center during COP15, and after: “When you go back, make sure that you don’t rest.”
At the end of the meeting, a young activist asked a question on nuclear energy. Apparently for Dr Pachauri, nuclear wastes, nuclear accidents, threats that large area could be contaminated for ages do not represent such an issue. “Nuclear energy is a serious option” he said adding, that it should be carefully assessed, and that not all every countries should use it… Pathetic… Hearing this I was thinking: oh yeah let’s swap a threat for another, forget about the climate change threat, que viva el nuclear threat!
Benoît